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2016 Postmortem

Uponthegears

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5. Exactly

Reply to katsy (Reply #2)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 02:14 PM

Jun 2016

Economic nationalism, like economic racism, festers in the social justice vacuum left by global capitalism's race to push ALL workers to the bottom of the barrel. NO ONE, not POC, not immigrants, not women, no one who creates wealth (capital) through the sweat of their brow benefits when capital is allowed to accumulate in the pockets of the 1%.

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Economic nationalism isn't socialism or leftism and should not be supported by progressives [View all] forjusticethunders Jun 2016 OP

k/r Dawson Leery Jun 2016 #1

What? katsy Jun 2016 #2

Level the playing field? Capitalists own and manage the playing field. nt glennward Jun 2016 #3

Is their position sustainable? katsy Jun 2016 #13

Exactly Uponthegears Jun 2016 #5

True to an extent forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #10

Exactly. katsy Jun 2016 #12

Stephen King. cyberpunk Jun 2016 #15

A fuck you by who? forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #16

Here katsy Jun 2016 #18

Where were these workers when Thatcher was elected? forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #19

Did you just move the goalposts or should you maybe katsy Jun 2016 #20

So expecting representatives in one's own country... ljm2002 Jun 2016 #4

So fight and organize against that forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #9

So fight to raise other countries wages, that will level the playing field. JaneyVee Jun 2016 #14

To be fair, if anything 15 is too low in a lot of places in terms of US COL. forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #17

K&R Starry Messenger Jun 2016 #6

Yawn. closeupready Jun 2016 #7

Excellent point, ForJustice. Hortensis Jun 2016 #8

also i just realized i posted it in the wrong forum forjusticethunders Jun 2016 #11